[pacman-dev] [PATCH] libmakepkg/source/git: Use --bare with a refspec instead of --mirror

[Allan McRae]

On 23/1/19 3:39 am, Johannes Löthberg wrote:
> I distinctly remember having cases where there were old PRs from before 
> a rebase that ended up pulling in multiple gigabytes of data, but I 
> cannot seem to figure out which repos they were anymore.
> 
> Of the larger repos I've looked at quickly it seems the difference for 
> most of them are roughly 100-500MB.  For Linus' linux repo the 
> difference is 446MB, 113MB for rust.
> 
> Since I can't really find the really nasty cases anymore, I guess you 
> can feel free to reject it, though I still think that the change is more 
> morally correct, and even a 500MB difference can affect some user
Just because I wanted to look at the numbers (percentage increase is
more interesting that absolute value), here is what I get for rust:

git clone --mirror:
Download: 506.98 MiB

git clone --bare:
Download: 406.00 MiB

So that is a decent overhead.